Phonograph



c. R RANEY Jam 2s, 1936.

PHONGRAPH 5 Sheets-Sheet, 1

lFiled Jan, 1l, 1934 c. R. 'RANEY Jan.

PHONOGRAPH Filed Jan. 1l, 1934 3 Sheets-Sheetv 2 Jan. 28, 1936. C. R RANEY 2,029,191

PHONOGRAPH Filed Jan. l1, 1954 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented -J an. 28, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 90 Claims.

invention is to provide an improved mechanism of this type, wherein the automatic operations of the mechanism are extended in such manner as to produce a wholly automatic machine and wherein improved means are provided for controlling the automatic functions of the mecha- .15 nism'. A further ob-ject is to provide improved and simplied means for starting the automatic y operation of the machine by the insertion of one or more records in the magazine irrespective of differences in diameter and automatically stopping the operation of the machine upon completion of the reproduction of the last record in the magazine, all of which is accomplished with a greatly simplified and entirely automatic mechanism. A further object of my invention is to provide an improved control means for the starting and stopping of the phonograph operated by the inserted records as aforesaid and automatically when desired, which also includes a record receiving compartment adapted to receive the reproduced records and has means associated therewith for actuating said control means and automatically interrupting the operation of the phonograph when the compartment becomes full.

A still further object of my invention is to provide an automatic phonograph adapted to play records of different size as fed from the magazine regardless of their order therein, the operation of which is automatically controlled by the insertion in the magazine of a record regardless of its size, all without the necessity for adjustment on the part of the operator. Another object is to provide an improved4 and simpliiied mechanism operative upon completing the reproduction of the record for returning the lreproducer and placing the same in playing position on the edge oi' the next record to be reproduced. Further objects of my invention are to provide improved means for transferring records from the magazine to the record reproducing table; an improved mechanism which is operated by the inward swing of the reproducer mechanism-for controlling the automatic return of the reproducer arm to playing position and which is operative with records of the type having eccentric as well as concentric inner needle grooves; as well as an improved mechanism operative subsequently to the reproduction of a record 4fo`r-.tripping the aforesaid mechanismand having an improved and more positive action. These and othenobj ects and advantages of my improved constructionv will, how- 5 ever, hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown for purposes of illustration, one embodiment which my invention may assume in practice.

In these drawings: .10

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of this embodiment of my invention, certain partsl being in section or elevation to facilitate illustration.

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1, certain of the parts being broken away 15 to facilitate illustration.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the record magazine illustrating the record controlled switch for the machine.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional detail taken on 20 line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

Figs. 5 and 6 are similar details showing the parts in different positions.

Fig. 'l is a sectional detail taken on line l-'l of Fig. 1.

Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation of the discharged record compartment of Fig. 1, showing the compartment full of records and the operating member of the control switch in switch open position.4

Fig. 9 is a diagrammatic showing of the electri- 30 cal control circuit for the phonograph.

Fig. 10 is an enlarged detail of the off-center record centering pin.

Certain features of the automatic phonograph construction illustrated hereinare disclosed and 35 claimed in my copending application, Ser. No. 295,017, flied July 24th, 1928, the present invention consisting in rcertain improvements over the construction of the aforesaid application.

In the construction illustrated herein, which is 40 of. the general type of the above application, a power driven mechanism is operated from an electric motor I and includes a record rotating table 2 driven by the motor and a tone arm 3 carrying a reproducer l adapted to co-operate 45- this illustrative construction, which is generally similar to that in my prior application, it willbe noted that the table 2 is located directly above the motor I, and that the reproducer arm 3 and its associated mechanism is adapted to swing laterally relative to the table in a Well known manner (Figs. 1 and 2). Improved reproducer controlling mechanism, herein including a drum of the general type disclosed in my application aforesaid, is disposed below the table and yabove the motor I. Moreover, co-operating record feeding mechanism herein including a magazine comprising a laterally feeding conveyor mechanism, generally ,similar to that in my prior application, is disposed to the left of the table, Figs. l and 2, and adapted to feed records successively thereon. Improved control mechanism is also provided in connection with the feeding mechalnism for automatically controlling the operation of the phonograph in response to the insertion of one or more records in the magazine irrespective of their size and controlled by the presence of records therein. Also, generally similar record discharging' mechanism is herein disposed below the table and adapted to discharge the record into a compartment located at the right and i below Vthe table and having improved controlling mechanism associated therewith.

Considering more particularly the drive ar' rangement of the mechanism shown, ity will be noted'that the electric motor I has a vertical shaft 5 which extends upwardly a substantial distance and projects through a horizontal sheet metal base G forming what may be called the oor of the mechanism below the table 2. As shown, this base 6 is carried von a horizontal main casting 'I suitably supportedon the frame above the motor and is also removably supported on a usual cabinet 8, thus permitting ready access to the mechanism, see particularly Fig. l1. As illustrated, the table 2 is herein fixed to the upper end of the shaft 5 which constitutes a fixed axis for the table, while the power drive for the mechanism ispreferably taken off this shaft 5 at a point `between the motor and the base 6.

Referring next to the mechanisms driven by shaft 5, we will first consider the reproducer controlling mechanism which is -the same as that in my prior application. As shown, a worm 9 on the shaft 5 meshes with a worm gear I2 which is rotatable on a transverse horizontal axis, comprising a shaft I3 journaled in suitable bearings I4 and I5 on the main casting 'I. 4I-Ierein the worm gear I2 carries an elongated sleeve I6 ex tending in thev direction of the bearing I5 and carrying, at its end adjacentthat bearing, a driv- 'ing dogratchet I'I, this sleeve with its ratchet and worm gear being normally freely rotatable on the shaft I3. Herein the sleeve I6 is adapted to be connected to the shaft I3l when desired by means of a spring pressed driving dogconnection I8 (Fig. 1), which is pivotally supported at I9 on the adjacent end of a horizontal rotatable into engagement with the internal teeth of,

drum 20 (Fig. 2') which is secured to the shaft I3, the dog therefore being rotatable with the drum. As shown, the dog I8 is constantly biased beyond the drum so that through the engagement and disengagementof this extension by outside mechanism, hereinafter described, the

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. scribed, which is, as herebefore, suitably guided at its free end in a horizontal slot in the casting 1 and'pivotally connected at 24 to the vertical 'base of the reproducer arm 3 and adapted, as the arm is swung laterally about its usual vertical pivot 25 on the supportingfframe I,.to project into the path of the dog vextension 22 or be moved out of the path of the same in such manner as to cause the automatic disconnection or connection of the sleeve I6 to the drum 2|!J Thus, when the reproducer arm is in the full line position of Fig. 2, i. e. the position it would occupy following the reproduction of a record, and while ystill engaging the groove therein, the member'23 is pushed laterally out of the path of the dog extension 22 by a depending extension 26 on a lower frame 21 swinging `with the tone arm. The engagement of the extension 26 with the member 23 relative to the position of the reproducer arm can be varied by improved means in the form of a laterally adjustable screw threadconnectedto the drum 20 to cause the latter tol rotate. f

As in my prior application, the drum 20 controls the movement of the reproducer mechanism, causing the reproducer to be raised from the record, swung back, and returned and lowered on the outer edge of another record during one rotation of the drum As shown, the

drum is provided with a longitudinally grooved portion at the top thereof when the latter is stationary, thegroove portion having opposed and spaced inclined surfaces 29 and 39- forming the bottom of the groove vand likewise extended along the length of the drum. Since the`drum rotates in a clockwise direction., as indicated in Fig. l, the inclined surface 29 constitutes a reproducer elevating surface while the lsurface 30 forms a lowering surface. provided on the drum which co-operate with the reproducer mechanism to guide and control the reproducer in its movement between these elevating and lowering positions. 'I'hese means 'in-- clude a downwardly extending projection, or finger, 3| carried. by the previously mentioned swinging frame 21 which engages the elevating surface 29 upon initial rotation of the drum 26 from its stationary position shown in Fig. 1. It 4will be notedthat this projection 3| forms a part of the member 32' which also .carries the depending projection 26, and that both of these projections are carried by the frame 21 which ls rigidly affixed to the lower verticalend' of the tone arm 3. Thus, since the latter arm is pivoted on a transverse pivot at 33 on the supporting frame structure the reproducer is correspondingly lifted asthe projection 3| is lifted by the elevating surface 29, lthis vertical movement of the reproducer being possible in addition to the swinging -movement of the arm aboutthe As heretofore, means are also bearing 25. Thus, it will be clear that as the drum 2|! rotates the reproducer will be lifted from the reproduced record and will be free for lateral swinging movement. Provision is made on the drum 20 for thus moving the reproducer laterally while in this lifted position to a'point out beyond the edge of the record.' Herein, this is accomplished by providing on the drum 20 a guide in the form of a rib 34 (Fig. 2) which extends longitudinally of the drum 20 and spirally along the outer surface thereof. At the end of the drum adjacent the bearing I the guide 34 extends laterally part way around the drum as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. As a. result of the engagement of the finger 3| with this guide, the reproducer, upon continued rotation of the drum 20, will be swung laterally toward the dotted line position thereof and of the frame 21 shown in Fig. 2. Also, as the drum continues to rotate the finger 3| enters a guide passage 35 formed by the lateral portion of the rib 34 and a cam plate 35 carried by the adjacent end of the drum and projecting beyond the periphery thereof. From this passage the finger 3| upon continued rotation of the drum 20 is guided into a passage 31 so disposed on thesurface of the drum as to return the reproducer to -a point over the edge of the new record, which in the meantime has been placed on the table by record feeding mechanism hereinafter described. It will be noted that the passage 31 communicates with a lateral passage 38 on the reproducer lowering surface 30 so that as the drum 20 continues to rotate the reproducer is lowered again onto the record.l

It will be noted that, as heretofore, the drum 20 is so timed as to complete one revolution and have its dog extension 22 engaged by member 23 at the time or shortly after the reproducer is placed on the record, the member 23 having been moved by the reproducer arm into its normal position in which it engages the extension 22 and releases the driving engagement between the dog I 8 and the ratchet I`1. In this connection it will also be noted that a relatively light coiled spring 39, connected between a lug on the vertical portion of the tone' arm and the member 23 acts not only normally to hold the member 23 in the path of the driving dog extension 22, but also acts to urge the reproducer 4 gently inwardly' towards the playing grooves of the new record by reason of the fact that the member 22 in this position of the reproducer arm is limited in its vmovement; by the slot in the frame 1 so as to cause the spring 39 to become slightly stressed during the outward swinging movement of the reproducer arm. It will also be noted that the end of the projection 3|-is provided with an antifriction roller which materially reduces the friction betweenit and the guides on the drums surface.

'Ihe location of the passage 3B relative to the record table is, as heretofore, such as to vposition the Vreproducer properly fora ten inch record. Means are also provided for automatically lowering `the reproducer in position to play a twelve inch record. These means include a guide passage 40, the entrance to which it will be noted is closed by guide rib 4I extending. from the edge of the drum and constituting one of the guide ribs of the passage 31 above described. When a twelve inch record is to be reproduced the finger 3| is diverted into the passage 40 by means which willV now be described in connection with the record feeding mechanism, it being noted that in an eccentric sprocket 42 at the end thereof which' is adjacent the bearing I5. This shaft also ca-rries between said sprocket and said bearing a cam member 43, the purpose of which will presently appear. The sprocket 42 lis arranged so that its pitch line is located exactly on the center of the shaft I3. This sprocket is inturn connected by a chain 44 with a larger sprocket 45 carried by the machine frame 1 on a shaft 46 parallel to the shaft I3 but located above the base E. The sprocket 45 has four times as many teeth as the driving sprocket 42, and consequently will rotate through an angle of only ninety degrees during the .rotation of the shaft I3 and the drum 20 carried thereby through one complete revolution. Due to the eccentric positioning of the sprocket 42 relative to the shaft I3 this ninety degree rotation of the sprocket 45 will take place while the drum 23 is holding the v reproducer arm 3 in raised position with the projection 3| disposed in the guide passage 35. Thus, the sprocket 45 and the associated record feeding mechanism stands still during a portion of the rotation of the sprocket 42 while the latter is moving in its'rotation about shaft I3 toward the sprocket 45. As a result, the new record is not fed to the table until the drum actuated mechanism has moved the reproducer arm to its extreme outward position, and while the arm is held stationary in this position by the movement of finger 3| along the passage 35 prior to returning the reproducer arm. An arm 41 pivoted intermediate its ends to the frame 1 carries a roller 48 at one end which engages with the cam 43 of shaft I3 and carries at its other end a free sprocket 49 which engages a reach of the chain 44 between the sprockets 42 and 45, the eccentricity of cam 43 being so arranged that the slackening of the chain due to the eccentric sprocket 42 is compensated for, as more fully shown and described in my copending applicationabove referred to. u

The record feeding mechanism is, as heretofore, actuated by the shaft 46. most clearly in Figs. 1 and 2 at the left of the table 2 a pair of horizontally disposed endless record feeding chains 50 is provided. As shown,

the right hand end of each of these chains passes around a sprocket on the shaft 46 between upwardly extending shaft bearings 5I and 52 and more closely adjacent the bearing 52. It will be noted that the opposite ends of these chains 5D pass around similar idler sprockets 53 carried on a shaft 54 parallel to the shaft 45 and journalled at its ends in upwardly projecting bearings 55 and 56 which like the bearings 5I and 52 project above the base 6. As indicated most clearly in Fig. 1, each link of the chain carries intermediate its length record supporting members 51 As shown and 58. Referring more particularly to Figs. 1 5

and 2, it will be noted that each of these members 5'| and 58 is provided with an arcuate slot, or opening 59 therein adapted to receive the edge of a record and to support the record in an upright position.

It will also be noted that, as heretofore, these members 51 and 58 are alternately disposed and thatthe members 51 are shorter than the members 58, the members 51 constituting the holders for twelve inch-records while the members 58.

constitute holders for ten inch records, the curvature of the slot 59.being such as to conform to the curvature of the edge of a ten inch or twelve inch record as the case may be. The

' table being moved about the shaft 46 as an axls into an inclined position above the table and gradually lowered towarda horizontal position above the table in which position the center hole inthe record is disposed substantially over a record centering pin on the table 2.

Referring particularly to Fig. 10 it will be noted that, herein, this pin is formed with an eccentric y annular and tapered upper end portion which terminates in an eccentricapex 68. The engagement of the central aperture of the record with the rotating eccentric end of the pin causes the record to be moved laterally to the right and away from the downwardly traveling record holder a suflicient distance to disengage the edge of the record from the groove 59 in the holder and to settle the record into properly centered position on the table. More particularly it will be noted that as the record is lowered onto the pin, the center aperture therein is engaged by the eccentric annular en`d oi" the rotating pin which in l eifect cams the record laterally out of the groove of the record holder, thus permitting the record to settle by its own weight into position on' the concentric portion 60a of the pin located below the eccentric portion thereof in which position it is centered relative to the table.

A suitable aperture 6| is provided `in the base 6 beneath the magazine through which the record l holders pass downwardly beneath the mechanism and again come 11p at the left (Fig. 2) in position again to receive another record. As herein shown, the conveyor is arranged to hold six ten-inch and six twelve-inch records which may be automatically reproduced, or either ten inch or twelve inch records may be inserted and played in the order in which they are inserted in the magazine.

Associated with the record feeding mechanism,

as v heretofore, is reproducer controlling mecha ing opposite portions of uniform diameter 64 therebetween. Co-oper'ati'ig with this cam is a roller 65 engaging the surface 64 and adapted when actuated by an enlargement 63 to'move a recprocable frame 66 Awhich is supported upon the -main frame 1 directly beneath the base 6: but

above lthe swinging vframe 21 of the reproducer mechanism. This frame 86 has a right-hand end projection 61 which is movable into and out of a record on' the table.

position in which it is disposed in the path of movement of an upstanding projection 68 of member 32 of the reproducer mechanism when the latter is being returned into a position over the record by the projection 3| as it leaves, the passage 35 and enters `the passage 31 above described. f

Considering more particularly the operation `of this reproducer controlling mechanism, it will be noted that, as shown in Fig. l, the record which has just been reproduced is a ten-inch record delivered by a holder 58 While the next record in the machine, assuming that the next record holder 51 contains a record, will be a twelve-inch record. When the drum starts to rotate, as a result of the abutment 28 engaging and displacing the member 23 from the dog extension 22, the depending projection 3|, acted upon by the elevatr ing surface 29, will cause' the reproducer arm 3 to be raised and swung laterally through engagement with the guide rib 34 into the guide passage 35 wherein it is beyond the edge of a twelve-inch However, before the connected arm 21 of the reproducer arm can swing back sufciently toward the center of the table to enable its projection 3| to enter the guide passage 38, and while the depending projection 3| is directlyopposite the entrance to the guide passage 40, one of the projections 63 on the cam B2 engages the roller 65 of the carriage 66 and, moving the latter against the action of its spring, causes the projection 51 on the carriage to be moved into the path of the upstanding projection B8 of member 32, thusl prevent-ing further inward movement of the finger 3|. Asthe drum con-v ered from the projection 61, by the lowering of the reproducer, and the reproducer will then be urged under the action-of spring 38 into the rst playing groove of the record, while the drum 28 will be stopped in the position shown in Fig. 2v

passage 38, since the roller 65 will be in engage-` ment with a dwell portion 64 of -the cam 62 and projection 61 will not be moved into the path of the inwardly swinging projection 68. f"

During this return movement of the reproducer arm relative to the'table and just before a new record is disposed on the table, the reproduced record is discharged from the table. This is accomplished herein by the projection of a crank arm 69 formed on that end of shaft |3 which is remote from the drum 20. This arm is adapted to be rotated with the shaft from its inoperative position shown in Fig. 1 in which it is located-below the base 6 into an elevated position in which it projects upwardly through a slot 18 in 'said base. 'I'his arm is provided at its free end with a roller 1| which is 'adapted to engage the over-hanging edge of any` record on- Athe table and to elevate the record sufficiently to raise th'e central aperture' of the record above the apex 60 of the centering pin whereupon, and due to the rotation of thel table, the record is discharged to the right as viewed in Figs; 1 and 2. By reason of the continued contact of the lower edge of the tilted record with the rotating table, the record is caused to engage the sidewall 12 as it slides from the table into a record compartment 13 in which the discharged record assumes an inclined position parallel to the left hand record supporting wall 14. It will be noted that the .bottom and side walls of compartment 13 are suitably lined with felt or other suitable material 15 for cushioning the descent of the records into the compartment. Due to the direct connection of the arm 69 to the drum driving shaft I3, said arm, subsequent to the discharge of the reproduced record, and While the new record is moving downwardly toward the table, swings around into a position below the.

base 6 before the new record is placed on the table.

Means are also provided by which the playing of the record on the table can be immediately discontinued, the record discharged into the discharged-record compartment, and the next record in the magazine fed to the table. This is accomplished by a manually reciprocable rod 14a projecting from the front of the cabinet which is connected to a generally vertical tripping levr 15a pivotally supported on the frame 1 behind the reproducer tripping member` 23 and in position to engage and trip the same upon manual operation of the rod 14a.

The mechanism above described, save'as regards certain features above brought out, is substantially that disclosed and claimed in my copending application, previously referred to, in which the record feeding and reproducer controlling mechanism is more fully described.

In accordance with the present invention improvedmeans are provided in connection with the record holding conveyor, or magazine, by which the operation of the phonograph is automatically controlled. Referring particularly to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, it will be noted that a shaft 16 is located alongside the record holding magazine normal to the shaft 46 and is rotatably supported be- -tween upstanding bearing members 11 and 18 carried by the upper face of the base 6. It will be further noted that the shaft 16 occupies a position close to the base 6 and extends beneath and closely adjacent the record feeding shaft 46. Carried by the shaft 16 and upstanding therefore, is a record engaging frame, or hoop, the 'outline of which is= shown most clearly in Fig. 1., 'Ihis frame includes the opposite upstanding end portions 19 and 8l! whichextend through and are permanently fixed in the shaft 16 and a middle connecting portion 8l which, with a ten-inch record in the magazine, or as sho-wn in Fig. 2 when the last record has been fed and the magazine is empty, is located directly above and parallel with the shaft 16. The end-member 19 is further extended diametrically through the shaft 16 to provide a depending switch actuating arm 82 which extends through a slot in the base 6 vand depends therebelow. The depending arm 82 is, accordingly, pivotally connected' intermediate its ends by a pin and slot connection with the switch actuating rod 83 of an electric switch 84 suitably supported beneath the base 6. As indicated most clearly in Fig. 9, the switch 84 has its leads 85 connected-in series with the leads 86 of motor I in the power circuit 81 for ysaid motor; and that the switch 84 has a movable contact member 88 adapted to co-operate with relatively long, resilient, stationary contact members 89,l thus to permit a considerably lateral movemembers of the switch 84 are open or disconnected as indicated in the right hand dotted position in Fig. 9,

As will be evident from Fig. 3, when arrecord is placed in any record holder 51 or 58 of the magazine the portion 8| of the hoop will be engaged by the periphery of theV record and will be rotated about the shaft 16 in` a direction away from the magazine into one of the on positions indicated in Fig. 3. Thus, the insertion of a teninch record in the magazine will move the hoop into the center full line position of Fig. 3, while the insertion of a twelve-inch record will still further rotate the hoop into the right hand dotted on position of this figure. As will be evident from Fig. 9, when the hoop is in the extreme left-hand position of Fig. 3, switch 84 is open, whereas in the position which the hoop assumes when a tem-inch or a twelve-inch record is occupying the magazine, switch 84 is closed.,

It will thus be evident that to start the phonograph in operation all that is necessary is to place one or more records to be reproduced in the magazine and that the first record placed in the magazine will actua-te the control switch 84 to close the motor circuit and set the machine in operation.

Means are provided, however, to delay the movement of the frame to its switch off position while the last record in the magazine is being reproduced on the table. To this end a notched disk 92 is fixed to the shaft 46 adjacent the frame supporting shaft 16. As shown most clearly in Fig. 1, the disk 92 is provided with four notches S3 which are thus always in timed relation with the record feeding mechanism and which are adapted to be entered by a laterally extended pin 94 (Fig. 3) carried by the shaft 16 whenever the shaft 46 is rotated into a position to bring a notch 93 in disk 92 opposite the pin 9.4, thus permitting the frame to move tothe dotted or off position indicated in Fig. 3.

When the last record is being delivered from thc magazine, it rides along the downwardly curved, forwardly projecting portion 95 of the frame portion 8|, tliuholding the switch 84 in its on position until the notch 93, which is opposite the pin 94, has passed beyond said pin. The pin then enga-ges the unnotched portion of the disk 92 and remains in this position while the record is being placed on the table and while it is being reproduced. When the reproducer has traversed the last record and has reached the position indicated in Fig, 2 in which it releases the driving dog extension 22, the drum 20 will begin another revolution, swinging the reproducer mechanism outwardly beyond the table and discharging the reproduced record as previously described. These operations will be performed prior to the operation of the record feeding mechanism due to the delayed operation of the latter by reason of theeccentric sprocket wheel 42.j Upon actuation of the record feeding mechanism, however, the notched disk 92 will be advanced until the pin 94, under the urge of Spring 90, drops into a notch 93 thereof, thus which, like the switch 84, is connected in series in the power circuit for the motor This switch is supported on an end wall of the cabinet beneath the discharged record compartment and is actuated by a vertical operating rod 91 which extends upwardly through the hase plate E and between the cabinet and-the end Wall 98 of said record compartment. Av knob 99 is provided at the free end of rod 91 above the base plate 6 by which the rod is adapted to be moved downwardly to open the switch or upwardly' to close it. It will be noted that the switch 96 is adapted to remain in either the open or the closed position thereof until it is operated. The provision of this master switch permits an operator to shut down the machine at any time without waiting l -for the records in the magazine to be reproduced, this switch of course disabling the automatic stopping and starting of the machine by the records in the magazine.

Improved means are also provided for automatically opening the master switch whenever, carelesslyl or otherwise, the discharged record compartment becomes full of records. Referring particularly to Fig. 8, it will be noted that the end wall 99 of said compartment has a transverse slot adjacent the bottom thereof which is normally closed by a resilient member |0| securedto the outside face thereof and consequently capable of flexing outwardly when engaged by the bottom edge of an inclined record which is being discharged into said compartment. The records rst discharged -into the compartment rest in an inclined position on the bottom and side walls thereof, but,l as indicated in Fig. 8, when the compartment is nearing its capacity, the bottom edges of the records engage the end wall 98 of the compartment below the slot |00 therein, each record engaging said wall at a point nearer said slot than the preceding record, until finally the record designated in Fig. 8 by numeral |02 strikes the resilient member |0| and flexing the same outwardly engages a lateral projection |03 on rod 9 1, causing said rod to be suddenly depressed into its switch open position. Provision of the above described automatic operation of the master switch 96, of course, prevents the continued operationv of the phonograph without removing the discharged records from the compartment. Preferably said' compartment is adapted to hold at least twelve records, which comprise a full magazine. It will be noted that when the master switch has thus automatically been opened by a full record compartment, it is not possible to operate the machine in any reasonable manner until these records have been removed from the compartment.

In connection with the reproducer tripping mechanism herein described as actuated by the `inward movement-of the depending projection 26, it will be noted that improved provision is made for tripping .said reproducer mechanism.

upon the inward movement of the frame member 21 of said mechanism. This mechanism is esber. 21 of the reproducer mechanism has an arm |04 (Fig. 1,) rigidly aflixed thereto and depend-I ing therebelow in a position to overlie an arcuate rack member |05 which is carried by member 23 and extends rearwardly therefrom in the general direction occupied by the tone arm during reproduction of a record, it being noted that this rack member conforms to an arc struck about the pivotal bearing 25 of the tone arm. As shown most 'clearly in Figs. 4 through 6, the

arm |04 is provided with integral'ldepending ears |06 between which a horizontallyextended gravity pawl |01 is pivotally supported for a limited yvertical movement. It will also be noted that the pawl |01 is provided with a bottom rack engaging tooth |08 which is adapted to engage the ratchet teeth |09 on the upper face of the ratchet member |05. This pawl |01 is bifurmember H0 pivotally supported between said bifurcations. This shielding member 0, as shown most clearly in Fig. 4, has a normally vertically disposed eccentric slot A||| therein through which the pivot pin ||2 of pawl |01 extends. Due to the eccentric location of said slot the shielding member ||0 normally occupies, by gravity, the position shown in Fig. 4 in-which the tooth shielding lug |3 thereof is located b`e-l neath the tooth |08 of said pawl, thus preventing engagement of said tooth with the rack.

During the reproduction of a record, the frame member 21 of the reproducer mechanism with its pawl |01, is located remote from the rack |05 and approaches said rack only when reproduction of the record is nearing completion. As the paw |01 approaches the rack, the tooth |00 thereof is shielded by the lug ||3 so that during the continued inward movement of the reproducer arm the tooth |08 is prevented from engaging the rabk member and actuating the arm 23 to release the dog extension 22. overrides the rack 05, as illustrated in Fig. 4.

4cated at its free end and has a tooth shielding If, however, a recordhaving an inner eccentric'.

needle groove, as the groove 3a of the double faced record shown in Fig. 3, has been reproduced, when the reproducer needle enters the eccentric groove the arm 21 will be given an 'If the first oscillation of the 'reproducer mechanism does not move member 23 sumciently to effect such disengagement of the dog extension, it will be noted that each succeeding oscillation of the reproducer arm will advance the rack member |05, thus utimately causing the tripping of the reproducer mechanism.

Due to the fact that the spring 39 is constantly` urging the member 23 into dog engaging position against the notching action of the pawl |01, means are provided to latch the member 23 after each actuation thereof by pawl |||1 against return movement under the act-ion of the spring 39. To this end the free, or abutment, end of the member 23 is provided with longitudinal steps I I4 (Fig. 7) on the bottom dog engaging surface thereof. As will be evident, each time that the reproducer arm advances the member 23 laterally, the dog extension 22 will engage a new latch face on the stepped portion of said member, thus permitting the s'ame to be moved in a progressive manner, by repeated actuation of pawl |01, out of engagement with the dog extension 22.

In connection with the disengagement of the dog clutch I8, it will also be noted that the drum 20 is provided adjacent bearing l5 with a cam plate 36 provided with a cam projection ||5 having an inclined cam surface terminating in an abrupt working surface IIE. A swinging, spring pressed arm I|1 is pivotally supported on the base E adjacent the drum and has a cam follower in the form of a roller IIB engaging the periph- It will be noted that the cam extension I I5 is so located with respect to the dog I I8 on the drum that when the latter engages the end of member 23, and during the time that the spring 2| of the dog is being compressed and the dog is being disconnected from the ratchet I1, the roller H8 is acting on the abrupt cam A:face

- I I6, and, due to the spring pressure acting on the arm |I1, exerts a considerable force on the drum acting to continue the clockwise rotation of the same, as viewed in Fig. 1, and thus eifect the disengagement of the dog independently of the power driving the ratchet I1. It will also be noted that the roller I I8, acting on the abrupt cam face H6 against the pressure of the dog spring 2|, constitutes .in effect a latch to maintain the drum in this disconnected position during the reproduction of the record.

Considering in general the operation of the t whole mechanism above described, it will be noted that in the position of the parts in Fig. 2 a teninch record has just been reproduced and, the dog extension 22 being released, the drum 20 is just about to make a revolution, during which the tone arm 3 will be swung outwardly beyond the table, the reproduced record will be discharged, and a new record will' be supplied to the table by the record feeding mechanism, as previously described in connection with these mechanisms. As indicated by 'the position of the parts in Fig. 2, the record which is about to be discharged is the last record to be reproduced, the magazine now being empty. The'drum 2li will be permitted to start a revolution and discharge the record on the table, regardless of the empty magazine, due to the fact that the pin 94 is now in engagement with an un-notched portion of the disk 92, asindicated in l, the switch 84 thus being held in closed position.

It will be noted that, since no new record is supplied to the table, the reproducer, when it is lowered by the lowering surface 30, having no record to support it, will fall into a position below its normal record engaging position and outside the table 2. The parts will remain in this position and themachine will stop when the pin 94 reaches the next notch 93 in disk 92, it being noted that a record feeding operation has been initiated by the machine, although the record magazine Vis empty. In order to set the machine again in operation, it is necessary only to insert a record, either a ten-inch or a twelve-inch record, in the magazine, the insertion of a record actuating the frame by its engagement with the portion 8| ihereof to close the motor switch 84. The machine will then continue itscycle of operation where it was interrupted by the entrance of pin 94 into the notched disk 92.

Here it should be stated that under these conditions the clutch dog I8 isin drum driving engagement with the ratchet I1, although the reproducer arm is outside the table. This is made possible by reason of the fact that when the reproducer arm drops to its present abnormally low position below the table, the dog holding member 23, which it will be noted is pivoted to the vertical portion of the tone arm a considerable distance below the lateral pivot pin 33 thereof, is withdrawn longitudinally, when the tone arm assumes this extreme lowered position, out of its normal position in which it engages the dog extension 22. Consequently, the drum 20 will continue to rotate through successive cycles until the record which has been inserted in the magazine is supplied to the table, it being noted that the reproducer arm 3 is raised and lowered during each of these success-ive cycles due to the ,engagement of the nger 3| with the cam faces 29 and 30 of the drum so that if a record is supplied to the table, the reproducer will be properly deposited on the edge thereof. IfI the new record which initiates the automatic operation of the machine is placed in the record holder of the magazine nearest the table, the drum 2U will make onlyone complete revolution. If the new record, however, is inserted farther back in the magazine, several rotations of the drum may be necessary to advance the record to the table, all of which, however, will be auto'- matically performed.

As regards the general construction above described, attention is directed to the fact that the present invention provides a phonograph which is extremely simple in its operation and is completely automatic. It will be understood that, although a manually operable master conl trol switch is provided, in the operation of the phonograph this switch will normally remain in its closed position and will not interfere with the completely automatic operation of the phonograph under control of the record actuated switch 84 above described, unless the machine is improperly operated.

As a result of the novel means for automatically moving this master switch into its contact open position by discharging a record into a full discharged-record compartment, the automatic operation of the machine is automatically stopped before damage is done either to the machine or the records. Thus a careless or immature person, or one entirely. unfamiliar with the operation of the machine, cannot, by operating it, cause damage thereto. The master switch also provides means forv stopping the automatic operation of the machine when there are records inthev magazine and it is not desired to continue playing the records, the phonograph being` instantly stopped by the opening of this switch.

As a result of my improved automatic control of the phonograph, by the records inserted in the magazine, it is possible to play single records or a series of records, irrespective of their diameter, simply by placing them in the magazine in the desired order. is possible to examine the records in the vmagazine and change any recordtherein during the operation of the machine, thus providing a very Furthermore, it

, be inserted in the magazine and automatically reproduced in the order of their position in the magazine, This control mechanism, which is governed by ythe presence in the magazine of a record of any size, also, by reason of the delayed control means associated with the record feeding mechanism, permits the last record fed from the magazine to be reproduced before stopping the operation ofthe phonograp By reason of the improved pin for centering the records on the rotating table, by which the central aperture of the record rst engages a tapered eccentric end portion of the pin, greatly improved operation of the machine results, since `anincreased lateral movement of the record is made-possible as it engages the eccentric portion of the rotating pin. This increased lateral movement of the record, by which it is laterally extracted from the groove of the record holder, permits the record magazine to be located a little farther away from the table and permits the machine to operate satisfactorily With records having a considerable variation in diameter due to this increased lateral. movement of the record under the camming action of the eccentric pin.

In connection with the improved mechanism forv tripping the reproducer mechanism, it will be noted that the phonograph of the present l invention is adapted not only to play, without adjustment, records of diierent diameter, either singly or mixed together in the magazine, but also that it is adapted to reproduce records having either spiral or eccentric inner needle grooves, without any change in the mechanism. By reason of the improved gravity pawl construction the eccentric groove tripping means is inoperative when records having spiral grooves are in use, the tripping pawl being permitted to move freely over the ratchet teeth of the tripping member without engaging with them.l It should also be noted that the improved pawl and ratchet construction provided 'for tripping the reproducer mechanism with eccentric groove records is operative irrespective of the degree of eccentricity of the groove on the record since the mechanism provided accomplishes the tripping in a progressive manner, step by step, as the reproducer traverses the groove through successive rotations of the record.

Here attention is also directed to the advantages resulting from -the laterally adjustable abutment means carried by the swinging frame of the tone arm by means of which the tripping engagement of the -reproducer mechanism with the dog clutch latching member can be vafred in setting up the machine to meet the requirements of a greater number of conditions and variations in construction encountered in the records of different manufacturers, thus greatly extending the scope of the machine.

While I have in this application specically deLcribed one embodiment which my inventionv .may assume'in practice, it will be understood that the same is shown herein for illustrative purposes only, and that the invention is not limited thereto but maybe modiiiedl and embodied in various other -forms Without departing from its spirit or the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: 1. lIrl a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including record receiving means disposed when in the. same vertical operative position to receive and support simultaneously a plurality of records of different diameters inserted therein, and means controlling said mechanism for effecting automatic reproduction of a single record deposited on said record receiving means and irrespective of the diameter of said record setting said mechanism in operation to reproduce said record by the deposit of said record on said record receiving means.

2'. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a record including record'receiving means disposed to receive a record in .upstanding position thereon, and means operareproduction of said records successively and setting said mechanism in operation upon the deposit of the first record of the series in said record receiving means.

` 4. `In a phonograph, mechanism for .automatically reproducing records including record receiving means disposed when in the same operative position to receive and support simultaneously records of different diametersjand means controlling said mechanism for effecting automatic reproduction of a record on said record receiving means and setting said mechanism in operation by the deposit of but a single record on said recordreceiving means, said record receiving means being adapted to permit the removal of any record therein or the insertion of additional records While continuing the automatic operationof the phonograph.

5. In a phonograph, mechanismfor automatically reproducing a series of records including a record receiving magazine having means disposed to receive one or more vertically disposed and laterally spaced records therein, and means for setting said mechanismin operation auto- 7. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records having a magazine adapted to receive the records in vertically laterally spaced relationship, and mechanism for initiating the auto-matic reproduction of the series upon the insertion of the rst rec- Iord of the series in the magazine, and continuing the automatic operation of said reproducing mechanism so long as a record remains in said phonograph, said magazine comprising spaced upstanding record supporting members and permitting the insertion and withdrawal of the records in the magazine during the automatic reproducing operation of the phonograph.

8. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record rotating table, reproducermechanism for reproducing a record on said table, a record receiving magazine adjacent said table having means for adapting it to support simultaneously a series of records of the same or different diameter, record advancing mechanism for feeding records from said magazine `to said table, and means responsive to the insertion of the frst record of a series in said magazine for initiating the automatic operation of said mechanism. to.

reproduce successively the records in said maga-V zine.

9. In a phonograph, a record rotating table, a record receiving magazine, co-operating record feeding, reproducing and discharging mechanisms, means governed by the first record inserted in said'magazine for initiating automatic operation of said mechanisms, and means governed by the last record remaining therein for controlling saidmechanisms to effect automatic feeding and reproduction of al1 of said records inserted in said magazine.

10. In a phonograph, a record rotating table, a record receiving magazine, cooperating record feeding and reproducing mechanisms, means for l discharging a reproduced record from said table,

and mechanism governed by the first record inserted in said magazine and by the last record remaining therein for controlling said mechanisms to effect automatic feeding and reproduction of all of said records and having means for starting said mechanisms upon the insertion of the first record in said magazine and means for stopping said mechanisms after the last record has been fed from said magazine and reproduced on said table.

11. In a phonograph, a record rotating table, a

-record receiving magazine, cooperating record feeding, reproducing and discharging mechanisms, and mechanism governed by the rst record inserted in said magazine and by the last rec.- ord remaining therein for controlling said mechanisms to eiect automatic feeding, reproduction, and discharge of all of said records and having means for starting said mechanisms upon the insertion of the first record in said magazine, and

' means for stopping said mechanisms after the reproduced.

automatic operation of said mechanism upon the insertion of the rst record in said magazine, and means for continuing said `automatic operation until the last record in the magazine has been 13. In a phonograph, a record rotating table, a record receiving magazine having means for supporting one or more records, each independently of the other, mechanism for reproducing the records in said magazine, and controlling mechanism for said reproducing mechanism operative to effect the automatic reproduction of all records in the magazine on said table and including an automatically operated starting and stopping mechanism which is controlledby the insertion and the removal of the iirst and last records of the series placed in said magazine.

14. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record receiving magazine, a record rotating table, and means controlling said mechanism' to effect automatic reproduction on said table of all records in said magazine and the discharge of the reproduced record therefrom including a control member displaced by the insertion of the rst record therein to indicate automatic reproduction and maintained in displaced position by the records in said magazine.

15. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a record holding magazine adapted to receive and support one or more records therein in upright position, and means for automatically setting said mechanism in operation including a control member disposed normal to the records in said magazine and in position to be engaged and operated by the iirst record inserted in said magazine, to initiate -automatic reproduction of the latter.

16. `In aphonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a vrecord holding magazine having a plurality of record holders adapted to receive and separately support a plurality of records in upright position, and means for controlling the automatic operation of 'Said mechanism including a control member eX- tended along one side of said magazine and normal to the record holders thereof in position to be engaged and operated by a record inserted in any of said record holders to start the automatic operation Iof said reproducing mechanism.

17. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a record holding magazine adapted to receive and support a plurality of records of different diameter in upright position therein, and means for controlling the automatic operation of said mechanism including a control member extended alongside said magazine in position to be engaged and operated to start said mechanism by the iirst record inserted in said magazine regardless of the diameter thereof.

18. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record receiving magazine, means for setting said mechanism in operation to effect the automatic reproduction of all the records in the magazine including a control member located in position to be engaged and operated by any record placed in said magazine and to be maintained in operative position until 'all the records in said magazine have been reproduced.

19. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record receiving magazine, means for setting said mechanism in operation to effect the automatic reproduction of the records in the magazine including a control member located in position to be engaged and operated by any record placed in said magazine and to be maintained in operative position so long as a record remains in said magazine', and means for maintaining said control member inlthe aforesaid operative position after the last record has been fed from the magazine and while it is being reproduced.

20. In a phonograph, mechanism for automati- 25 reproducing mechanism. 22. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatij;` said magazine including a control member engaged and actuated by ythe iirst record inserted therein to indicate said automatic reproduction irrespective of their diameter and maintained in actuated position so long as any record is in said magazine, and means for continuing to eiect automatic reproduction after the last record irrespective of its diameter has left the magazine t and until said record has been reproduced.

21. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing aseries of records including I'a record rotating table, reproducer mechanism, a

` record receiving magazine having. a plurality of record holders supporting records in substantially upright position, record advancing mechanism /20 for feeding records in said magazine tothe table,

and acontrol member disposed alongside said j record holders in position to be engaged by the edge of a record inserted in any of said holders and controlling the operation of said automatic cally reproducing a series of records including a record rotating table, reproducer mechanism for reproducing a record onsaid table, a record receiving magazine having a plurality of record holders each adaptedto receive a record,vmeans for advancing said record holders toward said table, and means including a control member located alongside said record holders and in posi- 3g; tion to be engaged by the recordsin said holders for controlling the automatic operation of 'said mechanism, said control member being displaced by the insertion of. a. recordv in any of said holders and held displaced by records therein whereby to 40 continue the automatic operation of said mechani-sm so long as a record remains in said magazine.

cally reproducing a series of records including a record rotating table, reproducer mechanism for reproducing a record on said table, a record receiving magazine having a plurality of record4 holders each adapted to receive a record, means for advancing said record holders toward said table, and means including a control member located alongside said record holders and in position to be' engaged by the records in said holders for controlling the automatic operation oi' said mechanism, said control member being displaced by the insertion of a record in any of said holders whereby to continue the automatic operation of said m so long as a record remains in said magazine, and meansgoverning the return oi' said control member to its normal position w upon feeding ofl the last record in said magazine to the table andV disabling said automatic mechanism upon reproduction oi' the'last record.

24. In a phonograph, a record rotating table, a reproducer, mechanism f or automatically sup- 55 plying a record to said table for reproduction and thesame from the table including a record receiving magazine, means for setting said mechanism in operation tb reproduce a record inserted in said vmagazine including a control -70` member adapted to be engaged by the inserted record and movedto anoperated position therelA by, and means for delaying the return movement l 'of said member until said record has been reprol f duced.l -75 25. In a phonograph, a record rotating table,

23. In a phonograph, mechanism forautomatia reproducer, mechanism for automatically supplying a series of records to said table for reproduction including a record receivingmagazine having means disposed to receive -a plurality of records in diierent positions therein, means for setting said mechanism in operation to reproduce the records inserted in any position in said magazine and automatically set in operation by the f. insertion of any record therein including a control member engaged by any inserted record and moved to an operated position thereby, and means for delaying the return movementof said member until all records have been reproduced.

y26. In a phonograph, mechanism `for automati` cally reproducing records including a record' rotating table and a record holding conveyor having a plurality of laterally spaced parallel record holders eachadapted to support a record therein,

means for operating said conveyor to ieelilv said records successively to said table to be reproduced,- means for controlling the'4 automatic operation of said mechanism including a movable control member located adjacent said magazine and normal to said record holders in position to be engaged and moved by a record linserted'in any of said holders from a normal mechanism inoperative position into a mechanism operative position tostart the automatic'operation of said reproducing mechanism, and means for delaying the return movement of said controlv member .to mechanism inoperative vposition after the last record in said magazine has been fed to said table end until said record has been reproduced.

27. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing `records including a record rotating table and a record holding conveyor having a plurality of laterally spaced parallel record holders each adapted to support a record therein, means for operating said conveyor to feed said records successively to said table to be reproduced, meansfor controlling theI automatic operation of said mechanism including' a movable control member located adjacent said magazine and normal to said 'record holders in position to be engaged and moved by a record inserted in any of said holders from a normal mechanism position to start the automaticV operation of said reproducing mechanism, and means for delaying the return movement ofl said control member'to mechanism inoperative position after the last record in said magazine has been fed to said table and until said record has beenreproduced, said means comprising a notched member movable with said record feeding mechanism and a inoperative position into a mechanism operative co-operating member carried by and movable with said control member and engaging an unnotched position of said notched member during feeding and reproducing of said last record and adapted to enter said notches and permit said control member to move to inoperative .position only after said last record has been reproduced.

28. In a phonograph, mechanism i'or automatically reproducing records including a longitudinally movable record holding conveyor adapted to receive and separately support a plurality of transversely disposedarecords in upright position thereon, means for controlling the automatic op eration ofv said mechanism including a control member located alongside saidconveyor land movable toward and away from said conveyor to control the stopping and starting of said mech- Y anism, and means normally biasing said control member towardsaid conve or, said control member being moved away i'romsaid conveyor by a 2,029, 19 1 record placed thereon and being held in displaced position by said record as the latter is moved therealong'by said conveyor.

29.l In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series ,of records including a record rotating table, a record holding conveyor adapted to support a plurality or transversely disposed upstanding records and movable toward said table to feed records thereto, and means controlling the automatic operation of said mechanism including a relatively stationary control member located alongside said conveyor and having a limited movement toward and away from said conveyor, means constantly biasing said member toward said conveyor in which position said mechanism is stopped, and means to set said mechanism in operation in response to the movement of said control member away from said conveyor by the insertion of a record on said conveyor.-

30. In-a phonograph, mechanism for automat- -ically reproducing records including a record rotating table, and a longitudinally movable record holding conveyor adapted to receive a plurality of records in upright position and feed them to and deposit them in horizontal position on said table, means for controlling the automatic operation of Asaid mechanism including a pivoted shaft extended lengthwise of said conveyor, a frame carried by said shaft having a portion extending alongside and above said conveyor in position to be engaged and laterally displaced by a record placed thereon, and means normally biasing said frame toward a mechanism stopped. position.

31. In aV phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing 'records including a record rotating table, a record-holding belt conveyor adapted to receive a plurality of transversely disposed upright records thereon, said records being moved by said conveyor from an upright position on said conveyor to a horizontal position on said table, andmeans for controlling the automatic operation of said mechanism including a control member extended alongside said conveyor in position to be engaged by the moving records thereon and having a downwardly curved portion adjacent said table along which said records move in their inclined position as they approach the table.

32. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a record rotating table and a record receiving magazine, means for feeding records from said magazine to said table, and means for controlling the automatic operation of said mechanism including a control member located adjacent the magazine and movable laterally away therefrom upon the insertion of a record in said magazine, means constantly biasing said control member into a mechanism stopped position adjacent the magazine, and means for delaying the return movement of said control member until after the last record in said magazine has been fed to the table and reproduced thereon, said means including co-operating interlocking members carried by said record feeding mechanism and said control member. A

33. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a record rotating table and a record receiving magazine adaptedto receive records in a transverse and upright position thereon, and means for feeding records from said magazine to said table and reproducing the same thereon, means for controlling the operation of said mechanism by the insertion of a record in said magazine including a control member pivotally supported for lateral movement from a normal mechanism stopping position in which it is adjacent said magazine to a displaced mechanism starting position, and means for delaying the return of said control member to mechanism stopping position until after the last record on said magazine has been fed to said table and reproduced thereon including co-operating interlocking members, one of which is carried by said record feeding means and the other of which is carried by said control member.

34. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatiCalY reproducing a series of records including a record receiving magazine and cooperating record feeding and reproducing means, means for effecting the automatic reproduction of all the records in the magazine including a control member located in position to be engaged and operated by any record in the magazine and to be maintained in operative position until after the last record has been 'fed from the magazine and reproduced, said means including a notched disk associated with said mechanism and a cooperating member associated With said control member and adapted to enter a notch in said disc to permit said control member to move into inoperative position, said mechanism being so timed that said co-operating member engages an un-notched portion of said disk during the feeding and reproducing of said last record.

35. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a record rotating table, a record receiving magazine, and record feeding means for transferring records from said magazine to said table, means for setting said mechanism in operation to effect the automatic reproduction of the records in the magazine including a control member located in position to be displaced from a mechanism stopped position to a mechanism operative position by any record placedin said magazine and adapted to be maintained in operative position so long as the record remains in said magazine, means biasing said' member toward its mechanism stopped position, and means for maintaining said control member in the aforesaid operative position of said mechanism while said record is being fed to the table and reproduced thereon including a disk rotatable by said mechanism and having spaced peripheral notches therein and a cci-operating interlocking member carried by said control member and adap-d to engage an un-notched portion of said disk during the aforesaid record feeding and reproducing operations.

36. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record rotating means and means for discharging reproduced records therefrom, a magazine adapted to receive the discharged' records' in substantially upstanding position therein, and means governed by an upstanding record in said magazine and operative only when the latter is filled for controlling said reproducing mechanism.

37. -In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record rotating means and means for dischargof records has accumulated in said magazine and stationary until the last record of the predetermined number is received in the latter, control- .ling said -reproducing mechanism.

38. In a phonograph, mechanism for reproducing a series of records including a record rotating table and means for discharging reproduced records therefrom, a magazine adapted to receive the reproduced records, and means engaged and operated by the last record automatically operative to stop the reproduction of records upon the accumulation of a predetermined number of records in said magazine. o

39. In a phonograph, a record rotating table', a magazine adapted to receive records to be reproduced in substantially upstandingposition therein, a second magazine adapted toreceive the reproduced records from the table in substantially upstanding position in said magazine,

automatic mechanism for reproducing a series of records including mechanism for supplying said substantially upstanding records from said iirst magazine to the table and for discharging the same when reproduced into substantially upstanding position in said second magazine, and controllingmechanism having means automatically operative to vstop said record reproducing mechanism when a predetermined number of records have accumulated in said second magazine.

40. In a. phonograph, means for automaticallyreproducing a. series of records including a record rotating table and means for discharging reproduced records therefrom, a magazine adapted to receive the reproduced records, and control means responsive to a yiull magazine and having va lcontrol member engaged and actuated'by the lastA record receivable in said magazine for automatically stopping said reproducing mechanism f when said magazine is full.

41. In a phonograph, means for automatically reproducing a series of records including a. record rotating table, a. magazine adapted to receive the reproduced records, and controlling means responsive to a full magazine and having a controlling member engaged and actuated by the last record for automatically stopping'said reproducing mechanism, and a manually operable control member operable from the exterior of said magazine for actuating said controlling means and member to stopsaid reproducing mechanism at 42. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of' recordsincluding a record rotating table and means for successively supplying records thereto .and discharging the same therefromupon reproduction, a magazine adapted to receive the discharged records in substantially upright position therein, and control-` ling means responsive to a full magazine and operated by the last record delivered ,to said maga.-

said records are dropped in'the same one against the other by said discharging mechanism and said controlling mechanism being so disposed as to be engaged and actuated by the edge of said last record.

44. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including `a reproducer, record rotating means, a magazine adapted to receive records to be reproduced, means for presenting said records successively to said reproducer to be reproduced and discharging the reproduced records, and a second maga- -zine adapted to receive the reproduced records in substantially upright position therein, and means governed' by the last record 'receivable inA said second magazine whensaid magazine is full for controlling the operation of said reproducing mechanism. 45. In a phonograph, automatic record reproducingmechanism including a .record rotating table and means for discharging reproduced records therefrom, a magazine adapted to receive reproduced records from said table, and controlling mechanism for said reproducing mechanism having a control member adjacent said magazine and engaged by a record therein for controlling the stopping and starting of saidY reproducing mechanism and movable to mechanism stopping position by a record discharged into said magavzine when 'a predetermined number of recordsl vhave been discharged thereinto.

46. In a phonograph, automatic record reproducing mechanism including a record rotating table and means for discharging reproduced records therefrom, ar motor for rotating saidtable. control means for said motor, amagazine adapted to receive reproduced records from said' table, and

means associated withI said magazinefgoverningf;

said motor control means including a member located adjacent said magazine in position to be engaged by a record discharged thereinto when a predetermined number of records have accumulated in said magazine.

n `47. In a ph0n`ograph,`automatic record reproducing mechanism including .a rotatable table and means for discharging reproduced records therefrom, a magazine into which thereprocontrolling mechanism for said reproducing mechanism having a control member controlling the stopping and starting of said reproducing mechanism` and automatically movable to stopduced records are discharged from said table, and

ping position by the records insaid magazine,

said control member being: located in a position adjacent said magazine .and having a projection engageable by a record discharged into said magazine when said magazine is full. l

48. In a phonograph, mechanism i'or automatically reproducing a series of records including a record rotating table, a. motor for operating said table, means also operated by said motor for supplying records to said' table and discharging reproduced records therefrom, a magam zine adapted to receive reproduced .records `from4 said table, manually operative means for controlling the operation of said motor, and automatic controlling mechanism having `means for automatically moving said .manual control means into reproducing mechanism stopping position when a predetermined number of records have accumulated in said magazine.

49. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a record rotating said table, and means controlling the ener- .76.

gization of said motor and starting the automatic operation of said feeding means including a switch operative by a record to close said motor circuit in response to the insertion of a record in said magazine.

50. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a record including a'record 5l. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records 'including record receiving means adapted to receive large and small diameter records, an electric motor for actuating said mechanism, and means controlling the energization of said motor including a switch and a switch operating member therefor having two cont-act closed positions and a contact open position and movable from a no-rmal switch open position into one or the other switch closed positions thereof in response to the insertion of a large or small diameter record in said magazine.

4 52. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a record rotating table, a record receiving magazine adapted to receive large and small diameter records, andl means for feeding records therebetween, an electric motor for actuating said mechanism, meansv controlling the energization of said motor and effecting the automatic operation of said feeding-v means by the insertion of a record in said magazine to reproduce all the records in the latter including a switch having co-operating stationary and movable contact members, and a control member associated with said magazine and operated by the insertion of either a large or small record therein to close said contact members to initiate the automatic operation of said mechanism.

53. Ina phonograph, mechanism for automati-l cally lreproducing 'records including va record rotating table and a record receiving magazine adapted to receive large and small diameter records, an electric motor for actuating said mech' anism, means controlling the energization of said motor including a switch having co-operating stationary and movable contact members and a control member, said switch having two circuit closed positions of its co-operating contact members, into one of which positions it is moved by said control member in response to the insertion of a small diameter record and into the other of whichit is moved by the insertion of a large diameter record` 54. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records including a record rotating table and a record receiving magazine adapted to receive large andsmall diameter reccrd's, an electric motor for actuating said mechenum, means for energizing said motor constantly throughout the operation'of the phonograph including a switch having co-operating stationary an-d movable Contact members and a ccntrol member, said control member being normally biased into a position corresponding t the circuit open position of said contact members, and said control member being movable in response to the insertion of either a large or a small diameter record into a. circuit closed position of said contact members.- Y 55. In a phonograph, mechanism for automati cally reproducing a series of records including a record rotating means and means for discharging a reproduced-recordtherefrom, an electric motor for actuating said mechanism, a magazine adapted to receive the reproduced records disjcharged from said rotating means, a switch in the circuit of said motor, and means engaged and actuated by a record discharged into said magazine for controlling said switch.

56. Ina photograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series lof records including a record rotating means and means for discharging a, reproduced record therefrom, an electric motor for actuating said mechanism, a magazine` adapted to receive the 'reproduced records discharged from `said means, and a switch associated with said magazine controlling the energization of said motor in response to the accumulation in said magazine of a pre-determined number of records and having a switch controlling memberin ysaid magazine engaged by the edge ofthe last record.

5 7. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record rotating means, a Amotor for rotating said means having an energizing circuit, a magazine adapted to receive records to be reproduced, a second magazine adapted to receive the reproduced records from said rotating means,Y

an electric switch associated with said rst mentioned magazine for controlling the energization 'of said motor circuit in response to the insertion of a record therein, and a switch associated with 'd second mentioned magazinealso controlling id motor circuit in response to the discharge ..of a record thereinto when said magazine is full.

' 58. In a phonograph, a record rotating means rotatable on a vertical axis, and mechanism for delivering a record in horizontal and centered` V position on said means while the latter is rotating on said axis including record delivery means from which the record is adapted to be extracted -by ahorizontal movement of the record, said record rotating means having eccentric means co-operating with the record to be centered' thereon for imparting a record extracting horizontal movement to the record prior to centering the same on the table.

59. In a phonograplna record vrotating means rotatable on a vertical axis, and mechanism for delivering a record in horizontal and centered position on said means while the latter is rotating on said axis including record delivery vmeans from which the record is adapted to be extracted by a horizontal movement of the record, and means eccentric from and associated with said record rotating means having a camming engagement with said record for imparting a horizontal movement thereto.`

60. In a phonograph, a record rotating means means on the .axis of said record rotating means for imparting said horizontal movement Yto the.

record.

.zontal movement of the record, and eccentric cam record centering member upstanding thereon, mechanism for delivering a record in horizontal and centered position on said table including record delivery means having a horizontally directed record supporting opening, and means' to extract said record from said opening prior to centering the record on the table including an eccentric projectionon the record centering member by which a horizontal movement is imparted to the record prior to its deposit on the table.

62. In a phonograph, a record rotating table rotatable on'a vertical axis. and an axial record centering pin upstanding from the table adapted to receive the central aperture of a record, said centering pin having a concentric record centering' portion 'adjacent the table and an eccentric and* tapered terminal portion above said concentric portion.

63. In a phonograph, a record rotating table rotatable o n a vertical axis, an axial record centering pin upstanding from the table, and means for feeding records laterally oversaid pin and into centered position thereon in whichl said pin is received in a central aperture in the record,

the rotationgof the pin prior to the deposit of the record on the table. 1

y64. In phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record rotating table rotatable on a vertical axis and a magazine for supplying records to said table in a generally horizontal position of the record,

. said magazine including a plurality of record ,supporting members having openings in which the ords on said table including a record centering cally reproducing a series of records including a record rotating table, means for presenting records of the same or different diameter for successive reproduction on said table, reproducer `mechanism including an oscillating reproducer successively reproducing records on 'said table, and means actuated by said reproducer while thelatter is moving in the same direction for successively supplying new records to said table, and mechanical means for successively automatically controlling said rst mentioned mechanism to effect complete automatic reproduction ol' successive records irrespective of whether the latter have ec,- centric or spiral terminal grooves engaged by said reproducer and returning said reproducer into position to initiate reproduction of a new record of the same or different diameter.

66. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a record rotating table, means for presenting records'of the same or diiierent diameter for successive reproduction on said table, reproducer mechanism including an oscillating reproducer successively reproducing records on said table, and

means for successively supplying new records to direction'and is at'diierent distances from the table axis forsuccessively automatically controlt.

ling said supply means to effect the automatic supply of successive new records following reproduction of a record having terminal grooves of either the eccentric or spiral terminaly grooved vtype engaged by said reproducer and returning said reproducer into position to initiate reproduction of a new record of the same or diierent diameter.

67. In a phonograph, a record rotating table. reproducer mechanism including an oscillating reproducer for successively reproducing aseries of records thereon, means for successively discharging reproduced records from said table and presenting a new record for reproduction thereon, and mechanical means actuated by said reproducerfor successively reproducing a series of records thereon, means for successively discharging reproduced records from said table and successively supplying new records onto said table, and means actuated by said reproducer while the same is moving in an inward direction and is at different distances from the table axisfor automatically controlling said mechanism to effect automatic operation on successive new records following reproduction of a record having terminal grooves of either the eccentric or spiral grooved type engaged by said reproducer.

69. In a phonograph, a record rotating table,

reproducer mechanism including an oscillatingv reproducer for reproducing records thereon, means for successively supplying records of the same or different diameter to said table, and means actuated by said reproducer while the latter is moving in the same direction and is at diiferent distances from the table axis for automatically controlling said mechanism to eilect automatic operation on successive new records following reproduction of a record having terminal groovesl of either the eccentric or spiral grooved type engaged by said reproducer irrespective of variations in diameter and returning said reproducer into positionto initiate reproduction of a new record irrespective of the diameter of the record. i

70. In a phonograph, a record rotating table, reproducer mechanism including an oscillating reproducer for reproducing records thereon, means including a magazine for successively supplying records of the same or diilerent diameter to said table, means for automatically controlling rsaid mechanism to effect automatic operation on successive new records following reproduction ofA a record having terminal grooves oir either the eccentric or spiral groovedv type engaged by said reproducer irrespective of variations in diameter, and means for automatically starting the phonograph in operation upon the insertion of a record in` said magazine.

71.. In a phonograph, a record rotating table, reproducer mechanism including an oscillating reproducer t for reproducing records thereon, means including a magazine for successively supplying records of the same or Adiiferent diameter t0 Said table, means for automatically controlling 2,629,191. said mechanism to effect automaticl'operationon successive new recprds following reproduction of a record Ahaving terminal grooves of either the eccentric or spiral grooved type engaged by said reproducer irrespective of variations in diameter, means yfor automatically starting the phonograph in'operation upon the insertionof a record in said magazine, and means for automatically stopping s'aid reproducing mechanism upon the reproduction of the last record inserted inl said magazine. t A

4'72. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records of the type having an inner eccentric needle groove includinga record rotating table and a swinging reproducer mechanism having at its free end a reproducer adapted to traverse the playing groove inward from the record periphery into the eccentric groove in said record, tripping means operated by the inward movement of said reproducer mechanism upon the reproduction of a record to return said reproducer mechanism, and means responsive to repeated inward, movements of said reproducer t v mechanism as said reproducer transverses said ec-` centric groove for advancing said tripping means in a step by step manner'into tripping position with successive revolutions of the record. v

'13. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records of the type having an inner eccentric needle groove includ-l ing a record rotating table and a. swinging reproducer mechanism having at its free end a reproducer `adapted to traverse the playing groove inward from the periphery into the central' ec` centric groove of a record on the table, means to return said reproducer mechanism upon reproduction of a record including means normally holding the same from operation, and means to trip the latter by the inward movement of said reproducer mechanism while said reproducer is transversing said eccentric groove including means for advancing said tripping means to tripping position in a progressive manner during successive'inward movements of said reproducer.

74. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing a series of records including a;V

record rotating table and a swinging reproducer mechanism adapted to swing in onel direction during reproduction of the record on the table, power operated mechanism for constantly rotating saidl table, mechanism adapted automatically to return said .reproducer mechanism f ollowing the reproduction f a record including a cam member, mechanism-for controlling'the operation of said cam member including a dog carried thereby and 4biased into engagement with a constantly rotating part of said power operated mechanism, an abutment means normally engaging said dog and holding the same in disengaged position against its bias, and means acting on said cam member to urge the same for r'ctationl independently of` saidy rotating 'part during engagement'of said dog with said abutment means.

'75, In a phonograph, mechanism `for automatically reproducing a series of records, including a record rotating table and a swinging reproducer mechanism adapted to swing in. one direction during reproduction of the record on the table, power operated mechanism for constantly rotating said table, mechanism adapted automatically to returnsaid reproducer mechanism following the reproduction of a record including a cam member, mechanism for controlling the operation of said cam member including a dog carried thereby and biased into engagement with a constantly -against its bias, and means acti'ngfon saidv cam member to urge the saineY for rotation independently of said rotating part during engagement of said dog with said abutment means comprisingA a cam on' said drum having an abrupt working. face and a stationarily supported cam follower acting on said face during the engagement of said dog and abutment means to move said dog out of driving engagement and hold the same against its bias during reproductionof a record.

76. In a' phonograph, a swinging reproducer arm, power operated mechanism for 'returning saidy arm toward initial position following a record reproducing movement thereof, a member controlling the operation of said mechanism, and means for actuating said control member to eil'ect the operation of said mechanism by the movement of said arm following reproduction of a record irrespective of whether the terminal grooves in the latter are eccentric or spiral and including cooperating pawl and ratchet means carried by said reproducer arm and said control member operative following reproduction of a record having an eccentric terminal groove for advancing said control member in a step by step manner into a position to effect operation of said mechanism, and cooperating means cooperating automatically with said control member following reproduction of va record having a spiral terminal groove.

77. Ina phonograph, an oscillating reproducer ,arm movable inward` during reproduction and reversely to return to cooperate with a new rec- 0rd,'power operated mechanism for returning said v ord reproducingk movement thereof a latch holding said mechanism from operation, and tripping means 'for said mechanism operative'irrespectiver ,f

of whether the terminal grooves Ain'successive records are eccentric or spiral and including a horizontally extended ratchet carried by said` latch, and a co-operating pawl carried by said arm in position to engage said rackand actuate said latch in a step by step manner into mechanism tripping position following a record reproducingmovement of said arm on a record having an eccentric terminalgroove, and. cooperating means for automatically rendering said ratchet and pawl elements inoperative following reproduction of a record having a spiral terminal. groove.

79.: In a` phonograph, an oscillating reproducer arm movable inward during reproduction and reversely to return vto cooperate with a new record, power operated mechanism for returning said arm following a record reproducing movement thereof, a latch holding said mechanism from operation, and tripping means for said mechanismincluding 'a ratchet carried by said latch and a cooperating pawl carried by said arm in position to engage said rack and actuatesaid latch upon an inward movement of said arm following a record reproducing movement ofthe latter.

80. In a phonograph, a swinging reproducer arm, power operated mechanism for returning said arm following the record reproducing movement thereof, a latch normally holding said mechanism from operation, ay laterally extended rack carried by said latch, a pawl carried by said arm in position to co-operate with said rack, and means carried by said pawl normally biased into a position to shield said pawl against effective engagement with said rack and inoperative after a reverse movement of said arm.

`81. In a phonograph, automatic mechanism for reproducing records of the type having either returning said arm following a record reproducing movement thereof into position to initiate reproduction of a new record of the same or different diameter, a control member normally holding said mechanism from operation, and means for operating said member to effect operation of said mechanism which is responsive to the. inward movement of said reproducer arm while the reproducer is within and under the action of the inner grooves of either of said records.

82. In a phonograph, a record rotating table, a swinging reproducer mechanism including a reproducer adapted tc traverse the playing groove of a record o'nr said table, power actuated mechanism for returning said reproducer mechanism to initial playing position on a new record of the same or different diameter after a record reproducing movement thereof, means for controlling said power actuated mechanism including a control member normally biased into a position in which said power actuated mechanism is restrained from returning said reproducer mechanism,` and means for automatically controlling 'said controlling member for automatic operation on successive records having spiral or eccentric terminal grooves including an abutment member interposed between said vcontrol memberand reproducer mechanism for tripping said control member and adjustable to vary the distance between said members at which tripping engagement therebetween takes place.

83. In a phonograph, a horizontal record rotating table, a laterally swinging reproducer mechanism including a reproducer adapted to traverse the playing groove of a record on said table, power actuated mechanism-for returning said reproducer to initial playing position on a new record of the same or different diameter after a record reproducing movementl thereof, controlling means including a latch biased into'a position in'which it restrains said power actuated mechanism fromoperation to return said reproducer and from which it is moved by said reproducer .mechanism` following reproduction of a record, and means for automatically controlling said controlling member for automatic operation on successive records having spiral or eccentric terminal grooves'including laterally adjustable abutment means interposed between said reproducer mechanism and latch for varying the point in th`e` inward swing ofA said reproducer mechanism at which tripping of said latch will take place.Y I

84. 'In a phonograph, a record rotating table,

- reproducer mechanism including a swinging reproducer adapted to traverse the playing groove of a record on said table, power actuated mechanism for returning said reproducer to initial playing position following ay record reproducing movement thereof, a control member constantly biased into a mechanism controlling position in which it restrains said power actuated mechanism from returning said reproducer and from which it is moved by the reproducer mechanism following reproduction of a record, and co-operating ratchet and pawl mechanism carried by said reproducer mechanism and control member for advancing the latter in a step by step movement in a tripping direction by the record reproducing movement of said reproducer.

85. In a phonograph, va record rotating table, reproducer mechanism including aswinging reproducer adapted to traverse the playing groove lof a record on said table, power actuated Jrnechanism for returning said reproducer to initial playing position following a record reproducing movement thereof, a vcontrol member constantly biased Iinto a mechanism controlling position in which it restrains said power actuated mechanism from returning said reproducer and from which it is moved by the reproducer:

mechanism following reproduction of a record irrespective of whether theterminal grooves in the latter are eccentric or spiral, a laterally extended ratchet carried by said'control member,f.

and a pawl carried by said reproducer mechanism in position to cooperate with said ratchet to movesaid control member progressively in a step by step manner away from mechanism controlling position following the record reproducing movement of said reproducer on a record having an eccentric terminal groove.

86. In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records of the type having an inwardly directedspiral playing groove terminating in an inner eccentric tripping groove, said mechanism including a record rotating table, re-

producer mechanism including a swinging reproducer adapted to traverse said spiral groove inward into said eccentric groove, power actuated mechanism for returning said reproducer` to its initial playing position following a record reproducing movement thereof, a latch normally restraining said power actuated mechanism from operation, a rack carried by said latch and eit-l tended laterally toward said reproducer, a coi-operating pawl carried by said reproducer mechanism, and means to actuate said latch by the repeated inward movement of said pawl only after the nrst reverse movement of said reproducer under the direction of said eccentric groove.

87.v In a phonograph, mechanism for automatically reproducing records of the type having an inwardly directed spiral playing groove terminating in an inner eccentric tripping groove, said mechanism including a record rotating table, re;- producer mechanism including'a swinging reproducer adapted yto traverse said spiral groove into said eccentric groove, poweractuated mechanism for returning said reproducer to its'initial playing ward said reproducer, a co-operating pawl' carred by said reproducer mechanism, means for shielding said pawl from operative engagement with said rack during the initial inward movenient of said pawl thereover and `thereafter permitting said pawl to engage said ratchet and advance said latch toward mechanism tripping pomeans for effecting a step by step advance of l said latch to tripping position by repeated oscil-` lations of said reproducer by the action o! said eccentric groove including co-operating pawl and ratchet mechanism carried by said latch and reproducer mechanism, and means for holding said latch against reverse movement between successive latch advancing steps.

89. In a reproducer controlling mechanism, a horizontally extended pawl having a rack engaging tooth, and a tooth shielding member carried by the free end oi said pawl and normally biased into tooth shielding position.

90. In a reproducer controlling mechanism, a horizontally extended rack, a co-operating horizontally extended pawl having a rack engaging tooth at its free end, and a tooth shielding member carried by the free end of said pawl having a pin and slot connection therewith, said member being normally biased into a position in which said slot is vertically disposed and a portion of said member is interposed between the teeth of said rack and the tooth of said pawl.

CLEMMA R. Raimi?.

transmis or common.

Patentiio. 2,029,191.

the above numbered. patent requiring correction as follows:

January v.28, 1:9556.

` CLEMMA RQ RANEY.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the printed specification e! Page 3, second eoluinm line 75, after "opening" insert a comma.; page 8, second column, line 66, claim 6, after "magazinef' insert a comme; line '72-75, claim 7, for "ventically" read vertical; page l0, first column, line 7', claim 20, for ".indif cate" read initiate; line 8, same claim, for "their" read record; page 1 3, second column, line 14, claim 56, for "photograph" read phonograph; page 14, first column, line 54, claim 64, after In" insert the articles; and thatV the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the 5 same may'l conform tothe rcord of the oase in the Patent office. Signed and sealed this 28th day of April A. D. 1936.

(Seal) Leslie Frazer Acting. Commissioner of Patents.' 

